# Best local LLMs for Apple M5 Pro (48GB)

Updated: 2026-06-15

Apple M5 Pro (48GB): 48 GB unified, ~32 GB usable. Runs 59 of 67 tracked models.

- Mixtral 8x7B (46.7B): tight
- Command R 35B (35B): runs
- Yi 1.5 34B (34B): runs
- Qwen2.5 32B (32B): runs
- Qwen3 32B (32B): runs
- DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen 32B (32B): runs
- Qwen2.5 Coder 32B (32B): runs
- Granite 4.0 H Small (32B): runs
- Qwen3 30B-A3B (30.5B): runs
- Sarvam-30B (30B): runs
- Gemma 2 27B (27B): runs
- Gemma 3 27B (27B): runs

More: https://localmodel.run/best-llm-for/apple-m5-pro-48gb